San Francisco (CA) - Square Enix said it has been receiving comments from people surprised at its initiative on Nintendo's new WiiWare platform. As a company so used to enormous-scale projects, a bite-sized Final Fantasy game at this day in age was actually a rocky challenge. We have details on the game, including some you won't find anywhere else.

San Francisco (CA) - All the console players are out in force at this week's Game Developers Conference, but Sony has arguably the most technologically innovative concept thanks to its Playstation Eye peripheral.
It's not often you find a high-tech demonstration at a trade show that involves Sharpie markers and a blank piece of paper. That's what makes Sony's GDC showing so eye-catching, pun intended.

At Microsoft’s GDC keynote, Epic technical director and CEO Tim
Sweeney showed off the updated Unreal Engine 3 in a graphics
buzzword-filled presentation. The new engine will power the upcoming
Gears of War 2 and promises great things like hundreds of bad guys on
the screen, dynamic shadows and better character lighting.

San Francisco (CA) – We are convinced that Gran Turismo 5 will be the single most important game for the Playstation 3 and even if the game isn’t ready yet and Polyphony will be selling more or less a demo version in April, here’s at least the first serious accessory for the title.

Thanks to Codemasters' upcoming Turning Point: Fall of Liberty game, which focuses on a near-death experience for Winston Churchill in 1931, new information was revealed on the man who hit the renowned prime minister.

Nintendo today announced launch dates for Wii Fit, which broke sales records when it came out in Japan, and WiiWare, a digital download service for the Wii that will offer "bite-sized" games for casual gamers.

San Francisco (CA) – Gaming consoles like Sony’s PlayStation
3 have taken up too much of the spotlight and PC companies are taking
notice. At this year’s Game Developers
Conference, arch rivals like Intel and AMD are putting aside their differences
to wage war against consoles. The
aptly-named PC Gaming Alliance or PCGA already has an impressive list of
members like Acer/Gateway, Activision, Dell/Alienware, Epic, Microsoft and
Nvidia.

Game Review - Lost Odyssey has an amazing story, unbelievable graphics and an award-worthy soundtrack; it's just too bad the game itself faces antiquated mechanics and blatant rip-offs of others in the genre.